Adware on Mac (LaunchAgents/daemons posted)

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Adware on Mac (LaunchAgents/daemons posted)

Hi Everyone,

I made some stupid choices recently and installed adware on to my mac accidentally (It was on March 18th). I had a bunch of popups on Safari, but I updated it, and the popups have stopped. However, my google chrome is still infected. I've seen other posts, saying to post these three images so here they are.

~Library/LaunchAgents

/Library/LaunchAgents

Launchdaemons

I have no extensions in Safari or Chrome.

I know some of these files need to be deleted, but I'm not sure which ones.

Any help would be great! (I'm on Yosemite Version 10.10.5, Macbook Pro Retina)

Thanks

Posted on Mar 26, 2017 8:16 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Mar 26, 2017 8:33 PM in response to Jotocoz

Fixes for Adware and Pop-ups

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Answer 2

thomas_r.

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Mar 27, 2017 2:37 AM in response to Jotocoz

You've got a bad VSearch infection. Malwarebytes will remove it for you, for free. Scan and remove everything found, then reboot the computer, then scan again. It may find a few items on the second scan, and removing those should take care of it.

I don't recommend trying to remove VSearch manually, partly because it can be difficult to differentiate some of its components from normal system components and partly because some variants of VSearch have a tendency to re-create components that are being removed.

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